World through the aperture

Visitors take photos of an LED-light decoration during the week-long Taipei Lantern Festival in Taiwan, on February 16, 2019. (Photo by AFP)

A selection of photos shot recently from around the world:

Visitors walk past a Beijing Olympics-themed lantern in a park in Yuzhou town, Yu County, in China's northern Hebei Province, on the eve of the Lantern Festival on February 18, 2019. (Photo by AFP)Buddhist monks pray at the Wat Phra Dhammakaya Temple during a ceremony to commemorate Makha Bucha Day outside Bangkok, Thailand, on February 19, 2019. (Photo by Reuters)An elephant sprays water over itself ahead of the annual Perahera festival of the historic Gangaramaya Temple in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on February 18, 2019. (Photo by AFP)The head of Godzilla, a Japanese monster movie character, is seen on a building of Toho Cinema in Tokyo, Japan, on February 18, 2019. (Photo by Reuters)Camels compete in Kuwait's 19th International Camel race championship at the Kuwait Camel Racing Club, in Kuwait City, Kuwait, on February 9, 2019. (Photo by AFP)Angel Suarez is training at Mercado Cardonal during Red Bull Valparaiso Cerro Abajo in Valparaiso, Chile, on February 10, 2019. (Photo by Reuters)Martin Jarveoja of team Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT is seen racing at shakedown during the World Rally Championship in Torsby, Sweden, on February 14, 2019. (Photo by Reuters)An Italian naval helicopter flies over the Pakistan Navy ship Rahanaward during the multinational naval exercises 'AMAN-19' in the Arabian Sea near Pakistan's port city of Karachi, on February 11, 2019. (Photo by AFP)Workers cook "black honey" molasses, made from sugarcane, at a small factory in Mallawi, Minya Governorate, south of Cairo, Egypt, on February 3, 2019. (Photo by Reuters)Protesters hold signs during a demonstration against US President Donald Trump on Presidents' Day in Union Square, New York, the US, February 18, 2019. (Photo by Reuters)